Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret Plot to Capture Rome from the New Italian State (SIGNED)

Kertzer, David I.

ISBN 10: 0618224424 / ISBN 13: 9780618224425

Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

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Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Author on title page. Seller Inventory # 008885

Bibliographic Details

Title: Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Secret ...

Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Draws on previously unknown documents from the Vatican archives to detail a late-nineteenth-century plot on the part of Pope Pius IX and his successor, Leo XIII, to block the unification of Italy and to seize control of Rome and the Papal States, in a colorful history marked by such key individuals as the two pontiffs, Italy's national hero Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel, and France's Napoleon III.

About the Authors:

David I. Kertzer is the author of, among other books, Prisoner of the Vatican, The Popes Against the Jews, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. He is provost of Brown University and professor of anthropology and Italian studies.

David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University.